"Finis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the pamphlet through, from title page to "finis," calculations, figures, and all; and no reader ever had a more attentive listener. Captain Thompson took the book in his hand after I had got through, and gazed ...
— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper
... however, that they had not come to the real, sure-enough Finis. The Terminus was some ...
— Ade's Fables • George Ade
... essay at living which he had made and ended, as he had thought, and of which nobody knew anything. How could he tell, he asked himself now, how much or how little was known? Was anything ever ended until death had put the finis to ...
— A Country Gentleman and his Family • Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
... and inadequate interpretation of this sublime text. The philosophy of life, which will be the 'corona et finis coronans' of the sciences of comparative anatomy and zoology, will hereafter supply a fuller and ...
— The Literary Remains Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Edited By Henry Nelson Coleridge
... true, that his hand had dashed a foul blot of shame upon the fall pure page of a girl's existence, and written there the fatal finis? If she died, could he escape the moral responsibility of having been her murderer? Amid the ebb and flow of conflicting emotions, one grim fact stared at him with sardonic significance. If he had ruined her life, retribution ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
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